The Depiction of Water in Inventor

[Anonymous]

Water exhibits a blue color of varying intensity.(deepening to navy blue and eventually black with depth). I've tried modeling a medium size swimming pool with 12 ft depth (should appear medium blue) and a water-filled crater with 320 ft depth (should appear dark navy blue or black). It seems that Inventor doesn't take the wave diffraction or absorbtion of water into account since my pool and my experiemental crater looks like white, clear water regardless of depth. Is there a way to vary the color style (ambient, specular, diffuse, etc.). to mimic the wave diffraction and/or absorption (and thereby the increasing blueness of the water with depth)?

Inventor 11 SP2
MDT 2007
Windows XP Message was edited by: coviepresb1647

[Anonymous]

I didn't realize the border settings. Here is a better picture.

[Anonymous]

I thinking he will. I treated him to a dip to see how the layering and caustic surface would work on a person in the pool.

(I think a person would have more fun modeling the Nemo 33 pool in Belgium with its various underwater platforms, 33-m circular well, and simple caves. It is on my list to visit and dive.)

This is just an simple exercise I did to see how water is and can be depicted in inventor (materially and pictorially) and further to learn the material and color properties in the Styles Editor, and it is useful since one of our new projects is for the maritime industries. Message was edited by: coviepresb1647